Claim · #6493026
Mentha pulegium · biocontrol · Myzus persicae
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Mentha pulegium hydrolate had a minor effect on aphid mortality … but a strong inhibitory effect on their settling”
- Authors
- Fiebrig I.N. (ed.), Tornaghi C., McAllister G., Moeller N., Pedersen M., Sucholas J., Greinwald A., Ukhanova M., Luick R., Fiebrig I.N., van de Vijver M., van Kan C.J., Tilzey M., Stobart A., Prieto Garcia J., Vieweger A., Westaway S., Whistance L., Kümmritz S., Klocke B., Krähmer A., Johnson M., Sarabia L., Solorio F., Galindo F., González P., Sandoval Castro C.A., Torres F., Ku J., Păcurar F., Reif A., Ruşdea E., Nair M.N.B., Punniamurthy N., Venkatasubramanian P., Balasubramani S.P., Kukkupuni S.K., Weins C., Bombardi L., Peralta M.C.C., Bach A.E.
- Year
- 2023
- Publication
- CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group
- Page
- 130
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Source quote directly supports the structured fields: strong inhibitory effect on settling, minor mortality (<5%), consistent with known repellent/antifeedant properties of Mentha pulegium volatiles against Myzus persicae.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Myzus persicae settling inhibition by Mentha volatile/hydrolate fractions is biologically consistent; source quote directly supports the structured mechanism claim.”
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